numerous, that a deluge of authors cover’d the land: 
     Whereby not only the peace of the honest unwriting 
     subject was daily molested, but unmerciful demands were 
     made of his applause, yea of his money, by such as would 
     neither earn the one, or deserve the other; At the same 
     time, the Liberty of the Press was so unlimited, that it 
     grew dangerous to refuse them either: For they would 
     forthwith publish slanders unpunish’d, the authors being 
     anonymous; nay the immediate publishers thereof lay 
     sculking under the wings of an Act of Parliament, 
     assuredly intended for better purposes. (112)

     Next he turns (p. 50) from the general economic causes 
to the private moral motivation of authors inspired by “Dulness 
and Poverty; the one born with them, the other contracted by 
neglect of their proper talents . . .” In a word, the attack is on